The next day, Shi Bufan began to prepare to take office. Because according to the appointment document of the ministry, he had to go to office as soon as possible, so Shi Bufan had to hurry to take office. After Shi Bufan took office, he quickly completed the handover procedures with his predecessor. The predecessor was really relaxed, as if he finally had an "unlucky ghost" to take over. Shi Bufan probably knew that this guy was sent out to be a county magistrate, and since then he has gotten rid of this attached Guo Jingcheng, and he is still an unlucky county magistrate. After he goes out in the future, he will be the number one county order, which can be regarded as a hundred miles of marquis. You can feel the feeling of being powerful, and this is the county order.

However, when Shi Bufan came to take over, he naturally wanted to meet his immediate boss. This immediate boss is called Zhang Hong, an old man in his fifties. According to the setting of the Tang Dynasty, Wannian County belongs to "Jing County", and the county order of Jing County is on the fifth grade, while the county is the eighth grade, which is several grades worse! However, the official hierarchy of this Tang Dynasty was more complicated than that of later generations, and the counties alone were divided into Jing County, Ji County, Upper County, Middle County, Lower County, and so on. The prefectural orders of different counties and the rank of his subordinate officials are also different. Even the states are divided into upper states, middle states, and lower states, but this state is calculated according to population.

At present, the county official who has come over to serve as the county commander of Zhang Hong is his deputy, and this Zhang Hong, as the boss, must explain two sentences.

"Shi Xiancheng, since you came to be a county magistrate for me, then I think you must think clearly, this is Wannian County, which is attached to Guo County in Chang'an, then we must be careful in everything. If you're not careful, the consequences can be severe, you know? Zhang Hong said.

"Understood!" Shi Bufan replied.

Can Shi Bufan not understand? Back then, he had been doing Beipiao for so many years, so he naturally knew the complexity of the various relationship networks in the capital, so he had to be careful in everything. In other places, you may be very good, but when you arrive in the capital, it is really "not easy to live".

"Also, according to your status as a county leader, then you may not have anything to do. If you can't do a good job in farming, it won't be able to ensure the stability of my court and the peace of the world. So if you do a good job in this farming, that is to maintain the stability of the court, so you have to do a good job! Zhang Hong said.

Shi Bufan scolded in his heart: "You old thing, let me be in charge of farming, isn't it equivalent to being responsible for nothing?" At present, the autumn harvest has just been carried out, and all kinds of rent adjustments have also been collected, you let me be in charge of the agricultural mulberry, and I will be in charge of the agricultural mulberry during this agricultural slack time, aren't you doing this on purpose? Responsible for farming during the slack time, what kind of heart do you have? What's more, if you do a good job in this agricultural matter, you will not be able to do it well, and if you don't do it well, you will be the one who carries the black pot. Sure enough, it's an old official! ”

Shi Bufan knew that in ancient times, he was in charge of agricultural affairs, but in fact, it seemed to be very important on the surface, but in fact, it was the least easy to show credit. If nothing happens to this agriculture, then maybe everyone thinks that it should be, because in ancient times, this agricultural method was completely a small-scale peasant economy, and the government did not have much to do. It is completely up to the people to be responsible for farming, and the government and the emperor are at most just making a show and being a pro-farmer, and the rest is actually for the people to sit on their own.

In ancient times, agricultural affairs were not the agricultural bureaus of later generations, which had the power to formulate agricultural policies. In ancient times, agricultural affairs were actually very simple, and they were not responsible for making any policies, and they were completely laissez-faire. In addition, in ancient times, the government did not go to the countryside, and the political power only reached the county level, so its influence on the grassroots peasants was very limited. Let Shi Bufan be in charge of agriculture, in fact, this means that no rights have been assigned to him.

"The ancient government and the later government operated in a completely different way. In ancient times, most of the low-level government ruled passively, and the people would not take the initiative to manage if they did not have problems, and they were completely laissez-faire. Moreover, it is indeed not easy to produce results in this agricultural affairs, and it is not easy to have any conspicuous achievements! Shi Bufan thought.

Agriculture was very common in ancient times, but because it was common, it was not easy to show results. Just like some production safety in later generations, if there is no accident, everyone thinks that it should be, and they can't appreciate the efforts of those safety production supervision departments, and they can't realize their credit. But once something happens, most of the people who bear the blame are the safety supervision department.

So this agriculture is the same, this agriculture is so common, almost universal that everyone "ignores". Ancient agriculture was so the same, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn every year, and little changed.

Although there are times when the wind and rain are good and bring about an increase in production, this is the credit of God, not the credit of your magistrate. As for once something happens, then your local official will have to bear the black pot. In particular, when the productive forces are relatively constant, there are no suitable varieties of improved seeds, and there are no grain materials with higher yields, it is very difficult for the people to obtain a significant increase in grain production.

"In ancient times, there was no scientific breeding, and no one specialized in biology and agriculture, let alone the various agricultural techniques of selected breeding. It is completely carried out according to this traditional small-scale peasant economy, which is cultivated on their own land from generation to generation, and in the end it is difficult to increase the grain production dramatically in a short period of time. Therefore, no matter whether the government intervenes in agriculture or not, in fact, under the condition that the technology of the productive forces cannot be advanced by leaps and bounds, coupled with the problems of the small-scale peasant economy, no matter whether the government has any special policies, the grain yield per mu will not be able to increase rapidly in a short period of time. So this is the reason why there is no credit for being in charge of agriculture, and there is no conspicuous merit, so how can you get promoted? Shi Bufan smiled bitterly in his heart.

Although it was said that agriculture was valued in ancient times, throughout ancient history, how many officials could really rely on agriculture to be promoted? If you look at the reasons and reasons for the promotion of officials in ancient times, there are very few officials who have really made outstanding contributions to agriculture. Therefore, although it was claimed that agriculture was valued in ancient times, in fact, there were not many officials who were promoted because of agriculture. The emperor's personal cultivation showed that he attached great importance to agriculture, but in fact agriculture was too basic, and sometimes it was too basic, and it was easy to ignore it.

In the final analysis, agriculture is a thing that does not "change" much, and the progress of agriculture in ancient times was very slow, and there were not too many conditions for rapid progress in agriculture. Whether you work hard or not, agricultural progress is not "prominent" enough, a credit that cannot be highlighted and cannot be eye-catching, so how can it be valued by people? Although the government often claims to pay attention to the grassroots, to those basic things. But what you see is often the glossy.

Just like in later generations, a lot of news focused on universities, but few people cared about the basics of elementary and middle school. The vast majority of people look at the top, but few people really look at the bottom of the foundation. Everyone pays attention to universities, but in fact, without basic education at the grassroots level, then universities and higher education cannot be sustained. Many people care about high-end technology, but if you don't have those ordinary low-end products, you can't maintain high-end things.

Agriculture in ancient times was too basic, and it was because it was too basic that everyone ignored it. In ancient times, the means of promotion of officials often relied on an article, and after writing an article, they were also promoted. Some of them were promoted by giving advice to the emperor or their superiors and solving some difficulties. There are many, many more, but most of them have nothing to do with agriculture, because it is too difficult for agriculture to progress, especially in the ancient economic and social model, and it is almost impossible to make rapid progress in a short period of time.

"How do you make a performance? If I don't have enough performance, then I'm really going to die here. Without performance, then I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to have a chance to leave this unfortunate position. Even if people want to promote me, they must have some passable results, otherwise there will be no excuse for promotion! Shi Bufan thought about it.

Shi Bufan then took out all kinds of land information in this county government and familiarized himself with the situation in this vicinity. The location of this Wannian County is still good, the land is near Chang'an, it just belongs to the Guanzhong Plain, if you say that agriculture is still very good. However, if it is the capital, it is obviously inappropriate. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the economy developed, and all kinds of commercial populations also came to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

However, relying on the Guanzhong Plain alone is obviously unable to bear the pressure of so many non-agricultural populations. This is also the reason why Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian later moved the capital to Luoyang, Chang'an's non-agricultural population is increasing, and the grain output near Chang'an cannot be carried. On the contrary, after moving the capital to Luoyang, grain from all over the country can be transported from the Grand Canal to replenish, and the transportation is much more convenient, which is naturally the most important reason for moving the capital to Luoyang.

"The land in Chang'an is still relatively average, with each household having 20 acres of Yongye land and 80 acres of divided fields. This system of equalization of land is combined with the modulation of rent, so that each adult male and a woman are counted as one household after marriage, and each household adopts the means of male cultivation and female weaving as the means of production. Each household, 100 acres of land, the annual yield per mu is only one stone, plus two stones per year to pay taxes. According to the current household registration of the people, there are an average of five people in each household, and those five people are still few. In ancient times, when there was not enough oil, the average person consumed four catties of grain per day, which was twenty catties a day. In this way, the grain produced in a normal year is just enough for the ordinary people for a year and a half. In other words, even if the people don't buy anything else, they will only be able to leave half a year's rations. ”

But it is not possible, the people cannot just satisfy their needs for food, so that they have to buy something else. If the family population is larger, then these grains are also very dangerous, and the Engel index of a household has reached more than 66 percent. With such a high Engel index, the ability to resist risks must be very poor, no wonder it was so easy to have problems in ancient times, the Engel index has reached this situation, and it is strange that there is no problem if the land is annexed a little at home! ”

Shi Bufan didn't know if he didn't read the information, but he was really shocked when he saw it. During the Tang Dynasty, the Engel index of ordinary people had reached more than 66 percent, which was basically the standard of poverty in later generations, and even food and clothing could not be reached.

The Engel index is the proportion of a family's income that spends on food, and the higher the proportion of food spending, the poorer the family is. Although the Engel index cannot guarantee absolute accuracy, because some people eat dragon liver and phoenix brain, this cannot be measured by the ordinary Engel index.

However, it is undeniable that the Engel index is an important parameter to measure whether a place is rich and whether the people are stable, and it has a huge role in the macro aspect. When you study macroeconomics, you naturally don't understand the importance of the Gini index.

Shi Bufan made such statistics and found that the Engel index during the Tang Dynasty was simply too high. The so-called prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty is just a standard that even a well-off person cannot meet compared to later generations. Of course, the so-called prosperous era in ancient times, that is, the ability not to starve to death, the vast majority of the people did not starve to death, were not invaded by foreign races, and there was no domestic turmoil. But the prosperity that posterity requires is obviously not only these.

"It's really more people than people have to die, and goods have to be thrown away. In history, the Tang Dynasty, which was touted as powerful, was actually not really rich to the people, and the Engel index was still so high. There has been no significant increase in productivity, and it is clear that food production is not high. If you want to change, you can only start by increasing food production! Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan finally sighed and said, "Increase grain production? Hehe, I don't have sweet potatoes, I don't have corn, and I don't have potatoes! ”

Shi Bufan was really speechless, he didn't even have the sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes that a traverser should have. In these years, which traveler went to ancient times and didn't prepare sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes? With these things, the grain production is enough to increase tenfold, so that no one in the world will go hungry, and the feudal dynasty can continue forever?

It seems that with the high-yield grain of sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, a certain dynasty can be permanently continued, and the people will not go hungry and rebel because of hunger? It seems that the total amount of food is enough, and the people will not be hungry, and they will not think about overthrowing the imperial court?

For this, every time I saw the so-called high-yield grain with sweet potatoes on the Internet, it seemed that it would save a feudal dynasty and make a feudal dynasty last forever?

Shi Bufan just said: "Hehe, stupid, sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, that can't save a feudal dynasty!" Sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, not only is not the life-sustaining medicine of the feudal dynasty, but a life-booster. ”

That's right, Shi Bufan doesn't think that sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are the life-sustaining elixir of the feudal dynasty, but sweet potatoes and potatoes are the life-urging charms of the feudal dynasty, and they are enough to bury the feudal dynasty. (To be continued.) )